Kweisi Mfume

Congressman Kweisi Mfume has represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2020 (116th Congress-Present). Mfume previously represented the same district in Congress from 1987 to 1996 (100th-104th Congresses). Mfume has an extensive history of political involvement and community activism in Baltimore, Maryland where he served on the Baltimore City Council. In Congress, Mfume serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee where he is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations. In his third term, Mfume was chosen by the Speaker of the House to serve on the Ethics Committee and the Joint Economic Committee of the House and Senate. He was later elected chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. Mfume has consistently advocated for business and civil rights legislation. He co-sponsored and helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, strengthened the Equal Credit Opportunity Law, and co-authored and successfully amended the Civil Rights Bill of 1991 to apply its provisions to U.S. citizens working for American-based companies abroad. Mfume left his Congressional seat to become President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP in 1996 and served there for nine years. Later, he became Executive Director of the National Medical Association (NMA), founded in 1895 as the nation’s oldest African American Medical Association. In 2020, Mfume was re-elected to Congress after winning a special election to fill the remainder of the term vacated by the death of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Mfume earned a bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master’s degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in International Studies.